Best Family movies of 1980s

Actors : Josip Marotti, Ljubo Kapor, Emil Glad, Vili Matula,

A painter who can temporarily talk to the creatures of an enchanted forest, must help them stop the evil Cactus King, who's building an army of magical living weapons and machines to turn the forest into a wasteland perfect for the cacti.

Actors : Steve Railsback, Ronald France, Siphiwe Mlangeni, Glynis Johns,

An alien called Nukie searches for his brother Miko, who has been captured by the U.S. government.

Actors : Crispin Dickson Wendenius, Ellen Demérus, Linda Bergström, Henrik Larsson,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

There are only a handful of children living in Bullarby. This film follows their story through the fall and winter, picking up at the moment "The Children of Noisy Village" finishes.

Actors : Anthony Rogers, Jill Stanley, Lucas Evans, Andrew Whitehead,
Directors : Michael Rubbo,

When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around ...

Actors : Anthony Michael Hall, Claudia Christian, Jerry Orbach, Eli Danker,
Directors : Stan Winston,

A Los Angeles police detective partners up with a talking gnome in order to bring down the head of a crime ring.

Actors : Jonatan Lindoff, Oskar Löfkvist, Charlie Elvegård, Britta Pettersson,
Directors : Staffan Götestam,

7-year-old Bertil's parents are at work and Bertil are home alone and bored. He is the only child in the family since his sister Martha died of an illness. But everything changes when he ...

Actors : Rakesh Roshan, Raju Shrestha, Ashok Kumar, Bindiya Goswami,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

Factory worker with 4 sons marries middle aged woman with 2 sons and a daughter

Actors : Katsue Miwa, Junko Hori, Ryouko Kitamiya, Kazuko Sugiyama,

A story about how joy and happiness can be the most powerful weapon ever. A young unicorn is ordered to be taken from his home by the gods. They are envious of little Unico's power to bring...

Actors : Yôko Asagami, Keiko Takeshita, Tarô Shigaki, Asao Koike,
Directors : Kimio Yabuki,

A prince falls in love with a princess cursed to change into a swan by day, but their love is threatened by the sorcerer who keeps her imprisoned.

Actors : Tony Danza, Danny DeVito, Stacey Nelkin, Jessica Walter,
Directors : Jeremy Joe Kronsberg,

When his father - who owned a circus - dies, Foster inherits 5 million dollars - and 3 orangutans. However there's a condition connected to the money: if he gives away the orangutans or ...

Actors : Tatyana Aksyuta, Kseniya Piryatinskaya, Andrey Mironov, Lev Durov,
Directors : Aleksandr Mitta,

In a medieval fantasy kingdom, two orphans, May and his sister Martha, live in poverty. A group of robbers kidnap May to use his magic talent: he feels sick when surrounded by gold, therefore he can feel gold from a long distance.

Actors : Per Pallesen, Jesper Klein, Helle Hertz, Bodil Udsen,
Directors : Jannik Hastrup,

Samson is a young whale that doesn't have friends. He spends his time listening to his mother's stories about the legendary whale Moby Dick. Samson becomes fascinated about it and decides to go on a journey to find Moby Dick.

Actors : Piotr Fronczewski, Leon Niemczyk, Slavek Wronka, Bronislaw Pawlik,
Directors : Krzysztof Gradowski,

Ten-year-old Adas, beginning his education at the Academy, finds the hideout of Bird Matt, who used to be a prince. Touched by his fate, he promises to find the magic button which has the power to restore him to human shape.

Actors : Anne Bloom, Stuart Pankin, Patrick Collins, Peter Billingsley,
Directors : Hoite C. Caston,

When his mother sends Jack off with money to buy groceries, he comes home with a magic supercharged dirt bike instead. His mother is furious, but when Jack uses the magic bike to save the ...

Actors : Josef Kemr, Vladimír Dlouhý, Ondrej Vetchý, Jana Dítetová,
Directors : Hynek Bocan,

Petr's greedy stepmother steals everything from her stepson. Meanwhile, Petr meets two daughters of a local duke. He falls in love with one of them, but she is very proud and Petr means ...

Actors : Vanessa Sharp, Patricia Barker, Hugh Bigney, Wade Walthall,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

The colorful holiday classic is finally brought to the big screen, designed by famed children's story author and artist Maurice Sendak, and written for the first time to be as close as ...

Actors : Eric Foster, John Tallman, Griffin Casey, Maurice Grandmaison,
Directors : Jay Schlossberg-Cohen,

A Bigfoot-type creature befriends Paul, a young student. His father is a park ranger trying to capture an escaped tiger. Everyone in town is on edge and wants the tiger killed. David tries to keep Bigfoot a secret.

Actors : Hugh Pollard, Emily Richard, David Warner, Nicola Stapleton,
Directors : Len Talan,

Based on the fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm. Hansel and Gretel are trapped in the deceptively decorated house of the witch Griselda who wishes to fatten Hansel so that he may be baked ...

Actors : Vera Alentova, Sergey Nikonenko, Irina Cherichenko, Nina Ruslanova,
Directors : Yuriy Kara,

This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Two school girls for the ...

Actors : Linda Denise Martin, Michele Palermo, Rusty Cooper, Jim Fitzpatrick,
Directors : David Klass,

Four friends wrestle with moving out the town they were born and raised in, when they suddenly find themselves out of work because the towns only factory has been shut down.